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Originally Posted by moeloubani
There is a difference between people in the Middle East being intolerant of Americans because of their decades of meddling in the Middle East and Americans being intolerant of everyone just because they aren't Americans.
Which is very much the case. Mexicans - you guys hate them. Canadians - those fucking socialists. French - fuck the French those are Freedom Fries. Chinese - they are trying to take us over. Russians - fucking communists. Japanese - fucking Japs.
No other country in the world just lays down a general blanket of hate like the United States does.
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No, there is no difference between why Americans or middle easterns are intolerant. I grew up in a small redneck town and for the most part everyone I ever met told me that Russians were dirty thieving communists. I also, literally, didn't speak to a black person until I was 16. Not because I was a racist, but because there were none in the town I grew up in. There were a lot of people from that town that then hated blacks and Russians yet had never really known either and had no reason other than they were taught that way. When they get out into the world many people choose to not learn for themselves and re-evaluate how they feel so they hold onto that prejudice they were taught as a child.
There is such a lack of education in many of these countries in the middle east that the only option some people have is schools that will teach them to read and write, but will also teach them to hate Americans. They, like us, are also taught by their parents. Unlike us, many of them have no outside information to help them change that opinion. So they don't really hate us because they see us as oppressive and have first had knowledge of it.They hate us because they were taught to hate us and they were told since the day they were born how evil and horrible we are and that we are to blame for any problems they have. They have no information to offset that so they have no way of knowing that it isn't correct.